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Purves, Dale |
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Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School |
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Psychological and Cognitive Sciences |
| Secondary Field
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Systems Neuroscience |
 Election Citation
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Purves has greatly advanced our understanding of the development of the hierarchic network of specific synaptic connections characteristic of the mature nervous system by providing evidence for a hierarchy of trophic factors, each elaborated by a postsynaptic cell and needed by a presynaptic cell. |
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Research Interests
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Best known for his work on neural development and synaptic plasticity, Purves' research during the last 20 years has sought to explain visual perception and auditory perception in the context of music. |
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